skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The author writes as if people who work in this space are not smart.

That's correct. I write as if they are not smart, because the other option is that _they are willfully malicious and committed to maintaining a status quo that is not in accordance with any other ethical framework that you and I routinely validate_.

> I’m pretty sure everyone realizes bollards saves lives

No, american municipal "planners" and "engineers" (the people who claim special authority over, and knowledge about, mobility networks) routinely state that bollards are dangerous and _kill people_, because a properly engineered and placed bollard would completely destroy a car, if the car hit it at any speed.

Basically, I'm ranting because the people who say "there can be no bollard here" justify their decision with "because it would function as a bollard, creating a 'shadow' or 'eddy' of safety behind it, but at the cost of being able to stop a car, and what if the vehicle driver was inconvenienced or annoyed?"

I'm not suggesting miles of bollards, I'm suggesting that every intersection have two bollards on each corner, pointing towards the street in such a way that if you are standing in the vicinity of the corner, you could be positioned relative to passing vehicle traffic with a bollard between you and it.

If there is money to pour concrete and place rebar in the ground, there is money to reshape some of the metal so it protrudes from the concrete instead of being _exclusively_ embedded within it.

Also, youre "who will pay for it" is simply opposing the energy of anyone trying to create safety. It's not welcome. You're straw-manning me, I didn't say 'miles of bollards', I'm saying 'that bollards exist should be professionally relevant to anyone who claims special knowledge of roads and cars, and it's dedignifying to pretend that they don't know better.'
There isn’t a single mention of dementia in that paper. The only mention of stroke is associated with cigarette smoking. It talks primarily about nicotine’s effect on the vascular system and the effects seem minimal, even in mice.

Here’s a pretty comprehensive list of the benefits of nicotine and the lack of significant side effects.

https://gwern.net/nicotine#benefits

Here’s the conclusion he came up with after significant perusal of the research

“Nicotine is pretty much harmless, the studies are clear, the relevant areas & studies comprehensible with not too much work, and I feel I can discuss it with a clean conscience. Really, about the worst you can say about pure nicotine use is that it might be a gateway to tobacco or that one’s blood pressure might increase, which are issues that can be easily addressed empirically via additional studies/surveys or by eg. measuring one’s own blood pressure after taking nicotine, respectively.”
Noob question: What is the advantage of replicating data into a warehouse vs. just querying it in place on a postgres database?
Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols 2nd Edition - Radia Perlman

Every 2-3 years, particularly in the periods when I'm not actively in network engineering, I re-read this book from start-finish - and it just completely centers my mindset with regards to pretty much every fundamental topic in Network Engineering. There almost didn't need to be a 2nd Edition - most of the major topics were covered in 1st edition - the only major difference is the use of lots of protocol examples. The core material itself is timeless.

Here is just one gem from Chapter 5 - "Hubs, Switches, Virtual Lans and Fast Ethernet"

"I originally resisted adopting the term switch. Unlike thing, switch sounds like a word you'd apply to a well-defined concept, so it makes people assume that there is a crisp definition that everyone else knows. I thought the world was already confusing enough with the terms bridge and router. Unfortunately, people coined the word switch assuming they were inventing a new concept, somehow different from a bridge or a router. And there were various independent product concepts named switch. As "switch" vendors expanded the capabilities of their products, the products wound up being functionally the same as bridges and routers, usually a hybrid or superset. One cynical (and ungrammatical) definition I use for switch is "a marketing term that means fast." Almost all products these days are some hybrid or superset of bridges and routers. So maybe it's right for the industry to settle on a new word, switch, as a more generic term for a box that moves data."
The Myth of Sisyphus By Albert Camus. A great philosophy book, not that hard to read, about the absurdity of life. Camus talks about suicide in this context, and why life still has meaning despite its absurdity.
The Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson. As the title implies, it talks about caring less about what other think (while not being a narcissist). And how it can make you more happy and more likeable.
Things going well: all these engineers are just wasting salary dollars and not contributing anything, layoffs for everyone! Things going badly: all these engineers are incompetent and just wasting salary dollars, layoffs for everyone! Now where's my 7 figure consulting fee...
"but the ceo had a scheduling conflict so he couldn't come to this thing that was really important to him". Does that ever make sense to anyone? It never made sense to me. I think it's about classism. These guys only want to hang out w/ the lower class if they're at the front of the room talking otherwise they want to come off as mysterious and too busy to have any time. What a load of shit.
Good question :) We've a similar challenge to you, kids a few years younger, despite some efforts in school by teachers, they still don't get fed enough of the cool hard stuff they're hungry for, and youngest in particular finishes schoolwork early including extensions and gets bored. So I've done some searching possibly similar to you. found this : https://ukmt.org.uk. which has some good resources. Also just purchased off eBay this weekend, the Murderous Maths series by Kjartan Poskitt. Remains to be seen how good that'll be, might be a bit young for yours, although he did write some other books possibly for older kids. Some schools here in UK use this : https://sparxmaths.com. Maybe you can use that as an individual? Main thing is make sure to keep it fun, right? Playing card games is good too I think. Ones our family played include - "Oh hell". - like a simpler Bridge, you declare how many tricks you'll make and after a round you score 1 point for each trick plus an extra 10 if you made exactly what you said you would no more no less - quite tactical especially if you plan to make 0 tricks. "Black Lady" - sometimes called "Hearts" - each Heart is 1 bad point, Queen of Spades 13 bad point, King of Spades 10 and Ace 7, aim of the game is to not win tricks containing the bad cards. Seems to me those card games teach the brain to work in such a way that helps when doing various unrelated maths problems later on.
"The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America", by Daniel Boorstin
> Education as a domain has identified key performance metrics for teacher evaluation and has come up with a method of collection they can point to which always results in useful data.

Can you please elaborate on this? My impression was that judging teachers is actually fairly hard. See, for example, push-back on standardized testing.

The most useful metric I can imagine is where the students are in some number of years, but the obvious (to me) problems are

1. Takes years
2. Lots of confounding factors
Yeah but stockholders aren't necessarily retired.
A select statement, in this case, looks like a ternary in C, "y = (x > 0) ? 1 : 0". In FHE with integers, it's evaluated by making a large polynomial all x <= 0 become 0 and all x>0 become 1. Once you have y, you evaluate both halves of the if-then but multiply one result by y and the other by (1-y). Then add them.
As the old saying goes “If I owe you $100 it’s my problem, if I owe you $100,000 … it’s your problem”
"people" as a group need to stop shopping solely on price. Btw, You may look at other factors but as a general rule "people" look at price.
From my experience (though it was with CE 7) I got the impression that core kernel code is decent, but the rest of stack is haphazard collection of barely working hacks. APIs look like their NT equivalents, but not really, often missing crucial functionality. Documentation is often wrong or outdated, especially in BSP area, where it frequently mixes up how OAL interacts with the kernel with details of the optional PQOAL library. Same thing with driver documentation, where it confuses driver interface with describing MDD libraries. Finer semantics of the interfaces are mostly guesswork. Multiple barely documented touch device stacked on top of each other, with various ways of loading the driver and sending events to GWES. And the build system... that thing is just hideous.
VC’s, hedge funds, etc. all run lean—none have 10k+ employees or anything close. Employees are under a much brighter spotlight by the owners all the time. Groups might lose focus for an interval but once they their score is down it’s goodbye & the score is P&L calculated in very short intervals.
I'm renting a box from Hetzner - 4x 22tb HD, 2x 1.5TB NVME SSD, Ryzen 3600, 64gb ecc ram... for 100$ per month! It's nice :)
I -think- this is a working shareable link https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02931-w
Thanks for the comment. The payments go through Stripe and one could easily pull their credit card money back if there was any fraud involved. Saying that, I have updated the site.
I should have said "the derivatives in question" instead of simply "derivatives".

My point stands: OP claimed that most trading volume happens in securities and it simply does not. I highly doubt securities amount to more than the $20 quadrillion settled in the CFTC's realm last week.

I'm not claiming the jurisdictions of the CFTC and SEC are mutually exclusive. My point stands.
> Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian [and Tom Griffiths]

I think it would have been very difficult for Brian Christian alone to produce Algorithms to Live by: Tom Griffiths must have had a very strong presence in it.

It was Tom to give the "appetizer" presentation at TED: https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_griffiths_3_ways_to_make_bette...

--

By the way, I see that Brian Christian has published a The Alignment Problem - Machine Learning and Human Values, https://brianchristian.org/the-alignment-problem/

Has anyone read it?
A dedicated virtual machine is a kind of dedicated machine, sure. Like a private community swimming pool is a kind of private swimming pool.
> Commodities are consumable goods that get transformed through usage in industrial or commercial processes. Gold and silver can be transformed into jewelry. Securities, on the other hand, grant holders the right to periodic benefits like dividends, coupons, principal repayments and potential profit shares.

> How are you consuming crypto? What commercial or industrial process are being used?

What rights does holding bitcoin confer to the holder? I get no dividends, coupons, principle repayments or potential profit shares.

We’ve nicely entered why this argument still rages on. It doesn’t fit cleanly into either definition.
Thames Old Roman?
It's a currency and used as a direct form of acceptable payment. Not as much as it's creator envisioned, but it is. It's not a security. It certainly shares attributes with a commodity although I think a characteristic of a commodity is that it is tangible.
Isn't that the "muda"?
You can find kois model if you search koi llvc.

I just made some modifications to run it as a stream from a microphone. I am trying to develop my own voice changer (https://voicechange.io) so I dont want to share the source code for that.
I've wanted to create something like this for a long time. I've always wanted a threaded system where you can respond to a single line of text.

One thing I wonder is how this can best be extended to argumentative discourses where much of the discussion is a dispute of facts. Of course you could do that with this, but it won't be clear looking at the comment tree whether people agree on what facts, if any, are correct.

I wonder if this could be extended (or have a mode) that requires consensus on whether a thread is concluded (instead of one person deciding), which could be as simple as keeping the current UI but allowing the people the option to re-open threads; and the ability to attach summary statements to threads which percolate up to the thread's branch point.
They're very much like firefighters. Firefighters spend the vast majority of their working hours either literally doing nothing or else doing somewhat pointless make work, like washing the fire truck.

If your firefighters are spending more than ~10% of their time doing their actual job, then the odds of them needing to be in two places at once reaches unacceptable levels.

Old fashioned secretaries are similar, if less extreme. An executive secretary's main job is not to do secretarial work, but to be available at a moment's notice. If they're busy, they're not generally available.
That would make the TechCrunch article highly misleading since AWS and the other clouds offer big savings for reserved instances.
There was a real industry-wide hiring glut leading up to this. Once the market changed, a lot of companies had more people than they knew what to do with.
"Range: How generalists triumph in a specialized world"
"How to win friends and influence people"
"The History of Western Philosophy" Russell...though the Anthony Kenny series is at least as good.
"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" open at any page and there is an interesting story.
Right, all it takes is for the large local employer to suddenly downsize, causing both the loss of job, and the crash of the local housing market simultaneously.
TOTP Authenticator for PalmOS
Anecdotal-ish evidence but it does not seem like Twitter is functioning nearly as well as it used to: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/search/?q=broken&sort=relev...
I'm always surprised by people who expect and are excited for their refund. Half the country is pitching about politicians taxation plans when all the while they're volunteering to overpay out of every paycheck.
There's tons of Teslas on the market now at Toyota Corolla prices. If they want to turn over inventory, they'll need to drop prices.
I feel like those are related.
probably not a good paper ...

has been criticised by several sources

https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1779881762778120209

https://twitter.com/Debunk_the_Funk/status/17832345940885957...

https://twitter.com/DrSusanOliver1/status/178264909847637610...

one interesting comment :

Only about 65% of Japanese people have received 3 doses.

Cancer patients are more likely to receive 3 or more doses than the average person
since they have more contact with the healthcare system.

Who’s most likely to die of cancer? Cancer patients.

There’s your correlation...

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I'd balk too except for the Western left's response to October 7th. Immediate celebration. One American professor at Cornell described himself as exhilerated! [1] "This is what resistance looks like" say others. Tearing down missing posters. Exhileration followed by mass protests. Against Israel. On October 8th! Even before Israel could collect its dead. Using the inevitably incorrect rumors that develop in the panic that follows any disaster ("I heard there were 40 beheaded babies!" "A woman was raped while her baby was burned alive in the oven!") to discredit any actual atrocity ("This is a disinformation campaign by Israel! 40 beheaded babies is absurd. Hamas targeted only soldiers."[2][3]) Women's rights organizations who have yet to condemn the rape of Israeli women as a tool of terror [4]. Denial that there was any rape. Denial that children were murdered. Claims that the hostages were volunteers. Claims that the attack was by Israel, akshually. Claims that Israel staged the whole thing in order to justify genocide. UNWRA materials for children glorifying martyrdom. Even here on YN the only political articles of any kind that make it through the filter are those critical of Israel. It goes on. And on. If you don't find that convincing I unfortunately can drop loads more genocide- and rape-apologia - as long as it's perpetrated against "Zionists" (wink).

You might begin to see why I honestly think anti-Zionism is at best genocidal-adjacent.

[1] https://youtu.be/_foZMY8xfD8

[2] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/10/31/post...

[3] https://youtu.be/VL5ACBwO9cg I find this asshole mortifying. Within hours of his hearing about the attack, you can see him in real time struggling to convert the atrocity into something anti-Israel.

[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/october-7-...
In the case of using vaping to ween off of cigarettes? That's a good point for those who already smoked cigarettes, but I'm mainly thinking of the people that jumped into vaping to start and didn't use it as a transition off of cigarettes. The majority of my peers that vape never smoked cigarettes, or started casually smoking cigarettes _after_ they started vaping.

The data here [0] seems to support this. I grabbed this really quick, so I'm open to it not being excellent data. You're right that I based on comment on anecdotal data.

[0] https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco...
> Well, hate to tell you

Why?
a16z has halved their yearly rate of investor-led rounds. Are half of their 150 partners still doing "real work?"

Of course it would be silly for an outsider without any real knowledge of their complex operations to hazard such a guess.
This is why other countries just have laws for this, it evens the playing field and removes the bs.
https://archive.ph/JTiiu
Depends on the size of someone's nest egg. The goal should arguably be to use your other investments first.
Ads will likely show in SO answers , SO will get paid much better click rate than google ads gives them .

How will it be different for us users ? More ads which are pseudo first party .
I think contribution is a much higher level word that is way too abstract to be useful in this context.

When I think of "Contributions" I think of a voluntary transfer of money, whether from an individual to an organization or from an individual to themselves (like "contributions" to an IRA or 401k for example). But a contribution could even be sharing ideas with a group of friends (contributing to the conversation) or anything really.
I do desired them for their _objective_ incompetence. Among serious traffic people, globally, american traffic planners are regarded as children in a corner eating play dough.

I have plenty of nuance, here you go:

- https://zoningverydifferentthanours.substack.com
- https://josh.works/issues-in-golden
- https://josh.works/parking-in-golden
- https://josh.works/about-roundabouts

I could go on. Do you want to start with Donald Shoup's [The High Cost of Free Parking](https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Parking-Updated-Edition/dp/...) or my friend Alain Bertraud's beautiful book about urban _economics_ as the right frame of analysis for managing shared city resources: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644188-order-without-d...

There's a deep and intimate relationship between american zoning laws, american mobility regimes, and the american ethnic cleansing of all non-whites: https://josh.works/full-copy-of-1922-atlanta-zone-plan

Tell me more about my lack of nuance. You might be right, fwiw, but it might kinda be the point. I'm not interested in a message of "your opposition of ethnic cleansing is _insufficiently nuanced_.", though it is slightly humorous.
Wozniak's space firm, Privateer, buys Orbital Insight, raises $56.5M
From the README: "...they are all metrics-compatible with one another, allowing you to mix and match them for a more expressive typographical palette"
If the postgres database is recording business transactions, you don't want to cause your business to stop being able to take credit cards because you generated a report.
Despite all the attempts to improve upon the basics, hyperlinks really are better than almost everything that’s come after them.
Visuals are the big missing piece. Any text-based discussion will build different visions in each reader's head. Often, everyone agrees on the text description, and then, when a designer draws a picture, everyone disagrees because they weren't really aligned, they all assumed everyone shared their own personal vision. I love the concept of building a better way of discussing things asynchronously, but I would put visuals (images, videos, diagrams) at the center of that forum and overcome the biggest issue with visuals -- that they are often hard to make for many people.

All the mentioned alternatives tie comments to a particular user and relate comments (responses) to other comments. Instead, the conversation could be focused on the topic of discussion, which is often best described as a set of visuals describing the concept. Rather than responding to comments, you could organize comments around the associated component of the problem as it is described visually. This would allow multiple individuals to support a concept, rather than just amplifying or criticizing a particular user's comment. This might even help avoid defensive behavior since the problem is the focus rather than a particular person's comment.
Have you considered perhaps that because I live in Texas, I know a bit more about those programs than you who have just googled and linked the top results? And that perhaps because I live in Texas, I indeed have issues with Texas (still a part of America in spite of the wishes of some on the right wing)?

From your own article (I knew this stat would be in there):

> Currently, Texas leads the nation in the number of uninsured residents with nearly 5 million people living here without health insurance coverage, nearly double the national average.

Why do you think so many are uninsured if it is so simple for them to get health coverage?
Umm... I'm pretty sure cellular modems have not been _standard_ in all Hondas until about 2018, if in fact they are standard now. My 2019 Honda Ridgeline has only WiFi and bluetooth, not cellular, according to my Hondalink app.

The exceptions seem to be the "Elite" and "Touring" models of Hondas, which started using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 4G LTE cellular modem in 2018 as part of user-accessible telecom services that resemble Ford's OnStar.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/qualcomm-powers-adv...

It looks like the modem is part of the Telematics Control Unit ($500 to replace). The real question is, when did TCUs start sending personal driving data to Honda? And when did Honda start selling that and other personal data to other companies?
Whenever you extrapolate the "corporate vision" of these VC pontificators, you see a company all of whose revenue goes to investor share-grabbers, and whose projects are all funded by employees who are paid nothing.
I haven’t but it’s pretty interesting and now want to try one. Beecher cheese is called out but I’m not sure that it’s a “what is good to eat in seattle” but what is “food originating from seattle” - so fish and chips and teriyaki wouldn’t qualify ?
One advantage of using touchscreens in that very specific application is that it makes it easier to build simulators.

Every nuclear power plant has its own, somewhat unique control room, and to train operators properly, you have to replicate all the panels that make up that room, and it is much easier with touchscreens.
Users do not get pinged when you @them on this website. You can email and they will respond. There's a link bottom right.
> Thaw the sliced bread, and it's good as new

Not with any bread I've tried it with! Once frozen, in my opinion, the bread is only good for making croutons.

> the baguettes are wrapped in tin foil and get warmed in the convection oven at 170F. They come out as if they were freshly baked

This is true (whether or not the bread was frozen), yes.